I thank you very much, Mr. President, for convening this important discussion.
In ratifying the Charter of the United Nations, Member States have established a system under which relations between States are governed by agreed upon rules, with the peaceful settlement of disputes being a core purpos…
As the year comes to an end, we wish to thank you, Mr. President, and the other members leaving the Council at the end of this month — Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea and Sierra Leone — for their
important work in the service of the wider membership and international law over the past two ye…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important debate and the briefers for their presentations.
Liechtenstein reiterates the continued relevance of the children and armed conflict agenda, as the Secretary-General’s report for 2023 (S/2024/384) sadly illustrates. The mandate of the Speci…
We welcome the submission of the annual report of the Security Council (A/78/2), in accordance with Article 24, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, and thank you, Sir, for convening today’s debate. We also align ourselves with the statement made earlier this morning by the representat…
Thirteen years ago, the Syrian people called for their freedoms and fundamental rights to be respected. In response, the Syrian regime cracked down and orchestrated one of the most serious criminal enterprises and humanitarian crises since the Second World War, resulting in more than 400,000 deaths,…
I speak on behalf of the following group of States committed to the implementation of resolution 76/262, otherwise known as the veto initiative: Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Djibouti, Ecuador, Estonia,…
I deliver this statement on behalf of a cross-regional group of countries
committed to the effective implementation of resolution 76/262, known as the veto initiative, namely, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Iceland, Kenya, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand…
Liechtenstein is gravely worried by the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip and the signs of increasing escalation and instability in the wider region. We are deeply concerned about the massive displacement of the civilian population and the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation, the lar…
I would like to thank the President very much for convening this annual debate, and our thanks also go to the co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations for taking on their demanding and important task.
Recent and ongoing crises do not make the task of Security Council reform easier, but they …
We thank President Hofmański for his presence today and for presenting the annual report (see A/78/322) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to the General Assembly (see A/78/PV.21). At the outset, we would like to reiterate our unwavering support for the ICC, as an independent and impartial co…
Let me join the President and other speakers in expressing our condolences to the people and the Government of Morocco.
I also wish to thank the President for ensuring that the Assembly was able to meet promptly with respect to the veto cast late last month, in line with the terms of resolution 76/…
For the third time since its adoption of the veto initiative in April last year (see A/76/PV.69), the General Assembly has been convened in its regular session as a result of a veto cast in the Security Council, this one on 11 July (see S/PV.9371). It was the eighteenth veto cast by the Russian Fede…
The last time the General Assembly began consideration of this agenda item was on 23 February 2022 (see A/76/PV.58). We convened as a State member of the Assembly was about to execute a full-scale invasion of another Member State, in flagrant violation of the foundational principles of the Organizat…
I would like to echo the statement of the Permanent Representative of Portugal, who took the floor on behalf of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency group — of which we are a member — earlier this morning.
We welcome the submission of the Security Council’s annual report (A/77/2), in acco…
It is my great pleasure to address a Swiss presidency of the Security Council on behalf of Liechtenstein for the first time. We hope it will be the first of many.
Our starting point in our reflections today must be the existing structures in multilateral frameworks, with the 2030 Agenda for Sustain…
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity to discuss the veto initiative and for your leadership this morning in offering the members of the General Assembly an opportunity to speak on 26 April — one year to the day since the adoption of resolution 76/262.
We continue to be proud to …
The international community has borne witness to 12 years of atrocities in Syria. as violence and violations of the fundamental norms of international law have persisted with relative impunity. Just recently, the Investigation and Identification Team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemic…
The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, is often called the world’s court. In its important role, it is able to give advisory opinions when requested by the main organs of the United Nations authorized to do so, including the General Assembly. That pro…
I join others in thanking the two new co-Chairs of the intergovernmental
process for taking on such a demanding task and pledging our full support to them in their work.
Council enlargement may not be imminent, but perhaps we will be able to benefit from the changed dynamic in which it will be doi…
We thank President Hofmański (see A/77/PV.22) for presenting the annual report (see A/77/305) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to the Assembly. Having discussed the work of the International Court of Justice in the context of International Law Week, today’s debate gives us the opportunity f…
